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Structural Contact with Minors during the Work Placement: Mandatory Check of the Criminal Record Certificate
The Flemish Government has decreed that as of 1 February 2023 any organisation offering activities which involve the education, psycho-medical-social assistance, youth counselling, child protection services, supervision and animation of minors must carry out a mandatory check of the criminal record certificate of certain new employees. This mandatory check …
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Exam marks: how do you access the distribution of marks in Oasis?
As lecturer-in-charge, you can request the distribution of marks for your course unit via Oasis. Programmes can also request the distribution of marks for all course units of the programme. On this basis, the assessment practice can be discussed in the study programme committee, assessment committee, examination committee or academic …
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Comprehensive Video Solution (Project 6.1)
To be able to support our students’ learning process in the best possible way, we strive towards a second generation digital learning environment. An important element in this endeavour is a comprehensive video solution, by means of which lecturers and students can record, play back, edit, share and re-use …
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Work placement Glossary
Using the right terminology for a work placement is important. Below you will find the correct terms used at UGent, in Dutch and English.
Dutch 1. Soorten stage Stage Geheel aan geïndividualiseerde begeleidingssituaties en zelfstandige leersituaties tijdens een periode van ervaringsleren in de beroepspraktijk waarbij de student wordt ingeschakeld in … Read more -
Motivational Teaching: Where to Begin?
Motivating students during lectures is challenging for everyone. For more information, please visit the website on motivational lecturing (in Dutch). The website is the result of an innovation project that came into existence in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Faculty of Medicine and Health …
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Disciplinary Proceedings for Exams: How Does it Work?
Unfortunately, plagiarism or exam fraud occurs in every study programme. If it does, Ghent University will immediately start disciplinary proceedings. Read this Education Tip to find out how these proceedings work.
What to Do in Case of Plagiarism or Exam Fraud? communicate in advance about the importance of fair play … Read more -
Course Feedback by Students
What Is Course Feedback?
After each term, (former) students are asked to provide feedback on the general organisation, and certain specific aspects of the teaching practice with which they have come into contact. The output generated by this so-called course feedback (Dutch: vakfeedback) is used by Ghent …
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Flipped Classroom: a Traditional Lecture Revisited
If you are looking for ways to use your lecture period more effectively, consider allowing the students to acquire the learning content autonomously in advance and use your lecture period for in-depth learning activities according to the flipped classroom model.
What is a Flipped Classroom?In a flipped classroom, you …
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On-campus and Online Oral Assessments
Find out here how to draw up and organise an oral exam, what points to consider when administering and assessing the exam, and what to keep in mind in the case of an online exam.
What is Oral Assessment?During oral assessments, individual students or groups of students answer questions …
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The Study Programme’s Vision, Mission Statement and Programme-specific Learning Outcomes
What?
A study programme’s vision and competencies (or learning outcomes) comprise its profile, position, content-related focus and strategic choices and comply with Ghent University’s vision of premium-quality education. Drawing up a vision text and a set of programme-specific competencies (or learning outcomes) requires input from stakeholders like the students, the …
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Study Programme Feedback by Students
Each year, all students in the last year of their study programme (e.g. at the end of the Bachelor’s programme) are given the chance to give feedback. Feedback on a study programme in its entirety is an important factor of quality assurance on the three policy levels: the university level, …
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Student Talent Development in the Faculty
The following Education Tip gives inspiration to write the chapter on 'Student Talent Development' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
The faculty pursues a policy that is focused on maximising opportunities for all students. Indicate below the initiatives organised …
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Authentic Assessment of Communication Skills: Video Annotation as a Solution
This education tip is a report of a 2017 competitive educational innovation project
What?Authentic testing focuses on assessing students’ skills and insights in a situation that is (largely) in line with future professional practice. Authentic assessment expects students to demonstrate competences in a way in which professionals apply these …
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Online Lecture: Tips and Tricks for Interactive Lecturing
What Is It?
By online lectures, we mean synchronous remote teaching: lecturers use certain tools and/or software, and students take the class in real time. A common term for this is ‘webinar’ (from ‘web’ and ‘seminar’).
When to Opt for an Online Lecture? In context of internationalisation … Read more -
How to Stimulate Students' Language Development?
As a lecturer, you can boost your students' academic language acquisition. Such a language-developing didactic approach is based on three pillars: creating a context, interacting with your students and offering language support. This educational tip explains the three pillars, illustrated with practical examples.
How do you create a context?The …
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Written and Oral Assignments: How to Give Language Feedback and Assess Language Skills?
If you give your students a written or oral assignment, you will also need to provide feedback and assess their language use. This Education Tip tells you how to do that.
How to Give Language Feedback?Start with determining which competencies the student should acquire with the assignment. Align your …
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How to Assess Group Work?
Think thoroughly about how to evaluate group work as the evaluation method strongly determines how the group functions. Determine in advance what you are evalutating. Determine who evaluates and make sure that the evaluation is valid, reliable and transparent.
What do you evaluate in group work?Determine, as concretely as …
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Curricular Strands: Monitoring the Coherence Between Course Units
Are you looking to integrate or to renew existing curricular strands into the curriculum? This Education Tip contains a number of tips to get started.
What are Curricular Strands?Curricular strands make the study programme structure and the interconnection between course units more visible and explicit. Every strand is linked …
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Embedding the External Perspective in Study Programmes
By the new Quality Code for Higher Education (2019), Ghent University greatly values external parties' input on its study programmes' education policy and quality assurance. Each study programme is expected to take several actions, that allows them to embed a wide-ranging external perspective in a structured manner.
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How to Avoid Stereotypes, Prejudices, Bias and Microaggressions in Your Teaching Practice
The following Education Tip explains how stereotypes and prejudices are formed and their connection to a lecturer’s expectations of students. It also reflects on how these expectations may colour your interactions with students, and how to avoid bias and microaggressions.
Stereotypes and Prejudices: Origins“The problem with stereotypes is not …
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